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This was a fab opportunity to enhance creativity and innovation ensuring the club continues to thrive and lead in the competitive environs of elite football. A big thank you to the legend that is David Weir MSD for the invitation (and an awesome dinner with Fabian Hürzeler and so many of our MSDers)

Practical Applications:
🚀 Well that would be telling wouldn’t it!  But we found some new approaches that will help the club 'Challenge the Establishment'

Building a Creative Culture:
🥇 Psychological Safety: Essential for fostering innovation
🥈 Diverse Teams: Mixing roles, departments, and backgrounds to harness diverse strengths
🥉 Role of Leadership and Culture: Aligning people, teams, and systems to support innovation

The Workshop:
🏋️‍♀️ Group Challenges: We tackled a real BHAFC challenges to find an extra performance edge
🏋️‍♀️ Innovation Tools: Learned and applied tools such as ‘How to’ framing, the Kipling Method, Picturestorming, Attribute Listing and Dot Voting to generate and refine ideas

➡️ Strengths are Weaknesses Too: Avoid over-relying on any single strength
➡️ Follow the Creative Process: Follow a structured process of accumulation, generation, and evaluation (and leave space for incubation)

🔑 Key Takeaways:
5 Key Principles for Creativity & Innovation:
➡️ Connections: Creative ideas stem from remote associations
➡️ Chain Reactions: Foster a psychologically-safe climate to encourage idea sharing
➡️ Strength in Diversity: Leverage diverse perspectives for richer ideas

We delved into key principles, processes, and practices to boost innovation within the club – and tackled a live challenge at the same time.

⚽️ Creativity and Innovation for High Performance with Brighton & Hove Albion Football Club ⚽️

Delighted to lead a #Creativity and #Innovation Workshop with the senior team members of @officialbha.bsky.social last week.

Highlights from our paper on the conditions for Mental Toughness in Women's ⚽️

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With Brighton and Hove Albion FC ☺️⚽️ Update incoming next week 🔥@officialbha.bsky.social #ChallengeTheEstablishment #TheSeagulls #InnovationForPerfomance

But by setting a supportive culture through safe leadership practices… bringing in some outside inspiration… and experimenting with structures we can often set off the ideas that become innovations that can make a difference.

There are no one touch, simple solutions to helping companies (and councils) boost innovation.

And some more…

- Back to the Floor: Leaders engage in everyday tasks will see and hear more
- Do Something Different: Don’t fall into a comfortable behavioural rut.

- Read Widely: Gain diverse knowledge by reading, watching and listening around.
- Get a Mentor: Learn from others' wisdom and impart yours
- Look for Lucky Inspiration: Many inventions come from unexpected sources. Keep an open mind

Then there are everyday practices any of us can apply…

Case studies 2:
- Business Model Innovation: Wolves FC's partnership with Castore – now evolved into the Sudu company bringing great value for fans

Case Studies 1:
- Biomimicry: Nature-inspired solutions like slime mould for transport infrastructure and beetle experts solving aviation challenges.
- Elite Sport: Manchester City Academy and the England Cricket Team drew inspiration frm areas such as foster care, military, and corporate mergers.

Some of the key takeaways :

Principles:
- Connections: #Creative ideas emerge from the interplay between diverse knowledge
- Chain Reactions: Ideas thrive when shared and bounced off others
- Strength in Diversity: #Diversity enhances innovation
- #Leaders need to know how to harness these

What’s the deal? Outside In Thinking is about leveraging cross-industry, open innovation practices to boost #knowledge exchange for high #performance.

Helping Empower Innovation in Local Government

We all know the landscape for government innovation is pretty tough…

So I gave a keynote for government leaders

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Great presentation 👏👏👏